| 11207 Planning the Built Environment: Theories and Practice |
| Aims at PhD students and mature MSc students. |
| Danish title: Planlægning af det byggede miljø: teorier og praksis |
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Language: English ECTS-creditpoints: 7,5
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| Type: , course at phd level, open university |
| Program: Civil Engineering, Environment & Planning |
| Scope and form: Seminars and report assignments. Schön's 'The Reflective Practioner' is used as a primer, followed by study of research literature, divided into themes Design, Management, and Decision-making. The last part is dedicated to finalisation of reports. |
| Evaluation: Approval of coursework/reports
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| Examination: Pass/fail |
| Previous course: 67496 |
| Preferred prerequisites: Maturity and ability to work with open-ended problems. Familiarity with planning an advantage. |
| Participant limitation: Max. 15 |
| Aim: The concept of planning is complex and difficult to capture completely in a simple definition. Yet planning pervades our personal lives and society at large: we plan to arrange a candlelight dinner for two; we plan to construct 200 apartments of social housing; or we plan a road and railway link connecting Denmark and Sweden. What, if anything, is common to such cases? In this course, students and lecturers will join forces, seeking to clarify and deepening their understanding(s) of planning; in particular planning of the built environment. |
| Contents: Taking a shoot-first-and-ask-later approach, we stipulate a tentative definition of planning as 'decision-making about something desired but not yet realised (thing, state, action, or event)'. We begin the course by compiling a list of non-trivial questions that arise from this definition (students are expected to contribute). Examples: 'How can we "see" what does not yet exist?', 'do statements made by designers about not-yet-realised things have a (testable) truth-value?', 'how does realisation depend on organisation, resources, and context?', 'how and to what extent do planners exercise power?', 'are decisions rational, in what sense, and to what extent?', 'what methods or "models" may guide decision-making?', 'does scale influence the effectiveness of planning?'. From the list a number of questions will be picked out for closer analysis, using literature, discussions, and possibly exercises. Selection will depend on the interests and background of students and lecturers alike. |
| Contact: Per Galle, building 115, (+45) 4525 1674, pg@byg.dtu.dk |
| Department: 011 Department of Civil Engineering |
| Keywords: Planning, Design, Management, Decision-making, Theory |
| Signup: Via CampusNet/Campusnet |
| Updated: 24-04-2001 |
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